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Vol. 2, No. 7. PORT ROYAL S. C, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24,1863. Price Five Cents.
THE NEW SOUTH. ~
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The Herces of Wagner.
They fought with banner overhead,
* Till Wagner's top and floor were red
With blood of foes and leaders' dead;
O memorable battle hour!
llow deep the spell of thy strange power!
Diverse of hues, but one of life,
What heroes perished in that strife ?
iVo, perishc d not those valiant men;
In more thuu life they live again;
Their deathless deeds we grateful own,
^nd bid th( m live in long renown.
How many noble patriots fell,
Our history's apge shall truthful tell.
law Aim kAHAWwI QtuOVA
JLUC1CT nUlli.UVU i?? VU4 UVMV4v\*
His deed * theme for stirring song;
His name in love for age shall live.
The nation's bosom is his grave.
Tbero Puts-as ?I??eriiig ott tvi? bond,
Wit* Rword and banner firm in hand,
Poured..on the parapet his blood,
Ahd made Ids tomb where martyrs trod.
.There lifeless fell, mid battle cries.
Where yet c monument shall rise,
The gallant Phaw, whose rude-dug grave,
Was with h.s sable soldiers brave;
That bloody trench ordained to be
The ground of new born liberty.
Alike for CNiatti eld freemen weep,
And bid fair fame his record ketp;
Such hero records for our race
Xor time nor change may e're efface.
O yes, let history* proud enroll
High on her fair and precious scroll,
The cherished names of all the braves
Who sleep thus loved in martyr graves;
Ter still it is that earth's best good
Comes only through vicarious blood,
And men can never let such die
As give the;r lives for Liberty.
Hilton Head, S. C., Oct 16,1863. 3i> r. i. h. akt't.
AFFAIRS AT MORRIS ISLAND.
[From Our Special Correspondent].
Morris Island, S. C., October 15, 18C3.
There is little here to occupy the attention of
the reporters, all of whom have struck their tents
and followed the commanding General away to
his new headquarters on Folly Island. A genuine
reporter is a good barometer. He indicates
pretty clearly by his own course what current
events are likely to assume. You can judge by a
-close observance of these gentry whether Anything
is in the wind. If there is, you will see them on
the qui vive in all the camps, borrowing horses,
Asking questions, and taking notes ; if there isn't,
they exhibit a listless, restless air for a few days,
and then disappear altogether. And so from this
general exodus of ihe newspaper men, if from no
other reason, I judge-that the campaign here is
nearly if not quite at an end, or that if anything
AAAII* it trill noonv oAmn nfTinr
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quarter.
* We are doing a pile of work in Fort Wagner
and Gregg. Perhaps I ought not to say anything
about tliis ; but inasmuch as tlie rebels see us,
and moreover shell us every day and every night
from their big guns on James Island and Sullivan's
Island, the mere mention of the fact can do no
harm. It would please us now to see " Johnny
Reb " attack us. We could hold the island till
doom cracks. If he came we would try and make
things nice for him. We would treat him as well
as we know how. We haven't got anything too
good for him. We think we could induce him not
to go back.
TliP onmnc Vinrn o rrr*r>rl rlnrtl nlianOAfl R1T1PP
*"v vwi?|yo n {jwvu wv??
headquarters went away. Gen. Gillmobe and
his staff did require a good deal of room. Now
that he is away we miss the music of the Post
Band, but we appreciate highly the additional
space we get. '
The alarm on the fleet the other night, though
a huge one at the time and even extending to us
on shore, has ceased to be talked about I observe,
however, that you did not get the true
statement of the affair in The New South last
week. The rebel craft that came down to sink
the Xew Ironsides did not destroy itself by its
torpedo. It was annihilated and sent to the bottom
by a broadside from the frigate. The Xew
Ironsides was not damaged in the least, though a
late Charleston paper claims that severe injuries
were inflicted. Lieutenant Glassell, who was in
command of th^iori^doreviiQdfi?I-don't know
any other name for the vessel?was an officer of
>1 i i i 11 at. - /fl tt~
tne re Dei navy ana Deiongeu 10 me cnicora. n?
was found the next morning, in company with
one of his crew, having been picked up by the
Captain of a schooner in the channel. There is a
story in circulation that the Captain of the
schooner had agreed, in consideration of the sum
of $300 and the rebel's watch, to put him ashore
on Sullivan's Island. I have heard that the trio
was sent in chains to Hilton Head, on the following
day. Glassell, the Lieutenant, was formerly
an officer in our navy, and was at one time a
"boarder" at Fort Lafayette, from which he was
released in exchange for some of our officers. He
will probably resume his connection with that
institution at an early day.
The late Charleston paper to which I have referred
had a notice of a grand bull given in that
city to some officers who had arrived from Gen.
Lee's army. The rebel editor discloses a disposition
tn nrow faintlv over the recent battle at
Chickamauga Creek?or the " Itivcr of Blood "?
but admits after all that Kosecrans' position is too
strong to be taken. Looking at the experience of
Fort "Wagner and Vicksbnrg, he thinks the only
way to get the place is to dig to it
Our pickets bring inrthe report that rebel troops
have baen for some days in motion on James
Island, going toward the city. "We surmise that
they have been ordered out to reinforce the rebel
General Bragg.
?On Tuesday, 6th inst., a laughable incident
occurred among the working party in Fort Gregg.
A certain John Merrick of Company D, G7th Ohio
Vols., in the act of trundling a wheelbarrow full
of sand, had his equipage smashed and splintered
into firewood by a falling fra^ nent of shell from
a rebel gun. Shaking a handle of the barrow,
shillelah-wise in the direction of Fort Moutrie,
v 1-* a . tt n. J i l_ i. ;n
jonn excnumeu ; xjua me*. uj yes, ye m-uiimnered
thaves! re can't do that wane again. If ye
think ye can, snoot over a new wheelbarrow, and
meself will stand here to resarve it! "
?Canon-izing a man appears to signify making
a teg gvn of him.
1
News From the North.
The Cosmopolitan, arrived at this port Sunday
morning last, with dates to the 15th inst. Purser
Fexwick, has our thanks for a file of N. Y. papers,
from which we glean the following :
Memphis, Oct. 12, 1863.
Forces of rebel cavalry and artillery, reported
at from eight to fifteen thousand strong, have
been threatening the Memphis and Charleston
Railroad for some days, uenerai nun urn a iurces
hare been constantly skirmishing with them,
defeating every attempt to do serious damage,
Ruggles, Chalmers and Lee are said to be in command
under Joe Johnston.
On Sunday morning several culverts were destroyed
in the vicinity of Germantown and
Collierville.
At ten A. M., an attack was made by Chalmers v
with cavalry and artillery, reported five thousand
strong, upon the garrison at Collierville (consisting
of the Sixty-sixth Indiana infantry,) driving
them into the fortifications and burning their
cantonments.
During the fight Major-General Sherman and
staff, with a detachment of the Thirteenth regulars,
arrived upon the train,, en route to Corinth.
They disembarked, engaged the enemy and re
pulsed him with heavy io?s.
The regulars lost nine killed, twenty-seven
wounded and nine missing. Colonel Anthony's
loss was about the same number. One or two of
his picket posts were captured before the fight
Lieutenant Eames, ordnance officer on General
Sherman's staff, and Ed. F. Butler, telegraph operator,
were wounded. Lieutenant Lee, Seventh v
. Illinois cavalry, was killed.
Generals Carr, Sweeny and Hatch are pursuing
the retreating rebels toward the Tallahatchie
river, and will punish them severely.
The railroad is repaired and trains passed
to-dav.
V
Ventilation of Ibon-Clad Ships.?The Royal
Oak, says the London Lancet, would appear to be
destined to play as important a part in the sanitary
history of the Royal Navy, as the Warrior in
the fighting. As the custom is among naval architects,
wnile every care had been given to the
offensive and defensive powers of our armor-clad
1 - * i'"' * J i 1. J
mgfttes, I1H16 neea nau ueeu ut?uj?cu ujiuu vuvu
capabilities as dwelling places for a crew. True,
slnps would carry a smaller number of men than
it was usual to assign to vessels of their tunnage
and each sailor, as a consequence, would luxuri- *
ate in a larger cubic space between decks than ho
would have possessed in a wooden ship-of-war.
But it has been omitted to estimate the probablo
influence of iron-plated walls in acquiring and
retaining heat, as well as the effects of a confined
atmosphere upon outlets and inlets, which had
been reduced to the lowest decree, not only in
number, but also in capacity , consistent with tho
working of the vessel. It was quickly found that
the rrews of iron-clad ships were exposed, in hot
weather, to the risk of being suffocated (after tho
fashion of doughty knights of old), as well as, to
many, less conspicuous but not less serious, evils,
arising from the vitiated atmosphere of the between
decks. To obviate these evils, a system of
ventilation was suggested by Captain Fasshawe,
the Superintendent of Chatham Dock yard, and
it was carried out in tho Royal Oak while that
vessel was still on the stocks. \Ve long ago urged
that, until the hygienic conditions of ships-of-war
entered into the consideration of naval architects,
as fully as the sailing and fighting qualifications,
; there would be little hope of the removal of those
I /-iwti4vmL-e u-VnVh nfFpot. the. crews. The
results of the system of ventilation adopted in the
Royal Oak would seem to confirm this view. The
success is stated to be so great that the Admiralty
Las decided to ventilate all the ships of the armorclad
fleet on the same plan.
?Two sailors wera sitting on the gunwale of
their ship drinking grog. "This is meat and
drink," said Jack, ana fell overboard as he was
speaking, "And now you have got washing
and lodging," coolv remarked Tom.